182 THE BUTTERFLY VIVARIUM. 



beautiful of the Sphinx family. It is occasionally 

 found in England, but some have thought that the 

 specimens of this fine Moth taken at Dover in 1833, 

 and at Brighton more recently, may have been 

 blown over from the Erench coast. Its claim to 

 be accepted as a native species is, however, better 

 founded in the capture of one of the Caterpillars, 

 which was discovered in a garden at Tcignmouth. If 

 eggs or Caterpillars of the Oleander Hawk-moth are 

 obtained from the Continent, they should be fed on 

 some plant of the Vinca family nearly allied to the 

 Oleander, and more particularly on the lesser Peri- 

 winkle, which, was plentiful in the garden at Tcign- 

 mouth, where the solitary English Caterpillar was 

 found. 



There is much to tell of the form of the Cater- 

 pillars of this genus, and the derivation of their 

 name, with many other interesting particulars. 

 But I am compelled to pass rapidly to the considera- 

 tion of a few of the most remarkable of the larger 

 Moths of the other groups, just suggesting, before 

 quitting the Moths of this and the more nearly 

 allied kinds, that the collector should look after the 

 wood-boring larvae of the Clear-wings, such as the 

 Hornet Hawk-moths, Sphecia Apiformis and S. 

 ~Dembeciformis. Also those of the other Clear-wings, 



